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Delivery protest turns violent
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 month ago
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At least 20 people, including a policeman, were injured on Thursday when a protest by Diepsloot residents turned violent, Pretoria police said. "A crowd of about 100 started throwing stones, blocked off streets and became really violent," said Inspector...
Tags: turned violent, South Africa, police fired, rubber bullets, protesters turned, Johannesburg, fired rubber, Standerton, diepsloot residents
South African police wound 15
South African Police today wounded 15 people in a rubber bullet massacre including a 12 year old in the ongoing massive service delivery protests. Sakhile township in Mpumalanga woke up to flying rubber bullets as police's efforts to calm down angry mobs...
Tags: protests, South Africa, Police, rubber bullets
Cops wait, protests simmer
Standerton :: South Africa | about 1 month ago
Credibility In Palm Ridge, Thokoza, 15 people are behind bars facing charges of public violence, following Monday's protests. Police officers opened fire, using rubber bullets, after protesters pelted them with stones, blocked roads and burnt tyres...In the Sakhile...
The Police Are Rioting: A Report from the G-20 Streets, Pittsburgh 2009
by David Rovics, professional musician & G-20 protester. There is a popular assumption that, although other countries such as Iran or China don't have freedom of speech and of assembly, we do. And that it's what makes us so great. Anybody...
Tags: Cindy Sheehan, David Rovics, G-20, protest, Bill of Rights, Joshua White, Sarah Wellington, Civil Rights movement, Shays' Rebellion, Pittsburgh, Kevin Rudd, police, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, ACLU, BBC, NPR, CNN, martial law, Secret Service, FBI, LRAD, Holiday Inn, rubber bullets, tear gas
G-20 turning Pittsburgh into 'Tiananmen Square': Reports of police violence amid huge security measures
More reports flow from the G-infinity coverage of protests at the G-20 Summit via the interactive news wire they've set up on the Independent Media Center (IMC) open newswire network, at indypgh.org, and it appears that the massive police-security...
Tags: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, G20, G-20, police, police brutality, G-infinity, G-20 Summit, protesters, New York Times, Mail Online, rubber bullets, bean-bag rounds, sonic weapons, sound weapons, corporate media, bias, framing
JZ slams soldier protests
Pretoria :: South Africa | 2 months ago
Credibility Union Buildings in Pretoria. "I don't think it is acceptable that security forces, particularly the army, behave in the way they behaved," Zuma told journalists in Cape Town. "We are concerned about what happened. The minister (Minister of Defence and...
Tags: Pretoria, MTN Group, rubber bullets, Lindiwe Sisulu, Bharti Airtel, Union Buildings, south african, military veterans, pay rise, soldiers protesters
Police use rubber bullets to disperse soldiers
Pretoria :: South Africa | 2 months ago
Credibility Tshwane police used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse about 1 000 soldiers attempting to gain access to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the Defence Department said on Wednesday. When a group of protesters tried to climb over the first fence leading...
Tags: Ndivhuwo Mabaya, rubber bullets, South African, african police, S. African, Pretoria, spokesperson ndivhuwo
Strike enters third day, cost mounts
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 3 months ago
Credibility A strike by tens of thousands of South African council workers entered its third day on Wednesday, disrupting local government services and keeping pressure on President Jacob Zuma. The strike is the latest stand-off between Zuma and the unions who helped...
Tags: Jacob Zuma, south african, council worker, municipal worker, rubber bullets, strike enters, worker enters, South Africa, S.Africa, Samwu
Thokoza flares up
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 3 months ago
Credibility Police fired rubber bullets at about 200 protesters who stoned police cars and blocked streets today. Police Captain Godfrey Maditsi said the protesters marched to the Thokoza municipality in the east of Johannesburg at about 8.30 am, but found it was...
Tags: rubber bullets, Thokoza, fired rubber, municipality office, Godfrey Maditsi, municipality workers, police fired, South Africa
South Africans protest living conditions
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 4 months ago
Credibility A spate of protests across South Africa turned violent Wednesday after angry demonstrators took to the streets demanding improved services, housing and employment. Protesters outside Johannesburg blocked a major highway and threw stones at cars.
Tags: Mpumalanga, rubber bullets, South African, Johannesburg, Jacob Zuma, police fired, fired rubber
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